The Finnish company ICEYE, which is creating a constellation of satellites for radar imaging of the Earth's surface, reported that it was able to achieve photographic resolution with a detail accuracy of less than 1 meter. According to ICEYE co-founder and chief strategy officer Pekka Laurila, since its founding in 2015, ICEYE has attracted approximately $65 million in investment, expanded to 120 employees […]
Researchers from Boston University have developed an attack method (CVE-2019-11728) that allows scanning IP addresses and open network ports on the user’s internal network, fenced off from the external network by a firewall, or on the current system (localhost). The attack can be carried out when opening a specially designed page in the browser. The proposed technique is based on the use of the Alt-Svc HTTP header (HTTP Alternate Services, RFC-7838). The problem appears […]
The limited-time Iron Crown event has launched in Apex Legends, adding a long-awaited solo mode, changing the map, and offering exclusive challenges with gifts. In single-player mode, oddly enough, there are no significant differences from the usual “triples” - all characters can use all their abilities, and the number of scattered weapons and other rubbish remains the same. For obvious reasons […]
Over the years, the Linux operating system has become no less high-quality and reliable than Windows and macOS. However, it still has a fundamental flaw associated with the inability to correctly process data when there is insufficient RAM. On systems with a limited amount of RAM, a situation is often observed where the OS freezes and does not respond to commands. However, you cannot [...]
Online cinema Netflix has released a Russian-language teaser trailer for The Witcher. It was released almost a month after the English version of the video was shown. Previously, fans of the game franchise assumed that Vsevolod Kuznetsov, who became his voice in video games, would voice Geralt, but he denied his participation in the project. As DTF found out, the main character will speak in the voice of Sergei Ponomarev. The actor noted that he does not experience [...]
After testing for several weeks, Overwatch offered two interesting additions on all platforms. The first is the new hero Sigma, who has become another “tank,” and the second is a role-playing game. As explained earlier, now in all matches in normal and ranked modes the team will be divided into three components: two “tanks”, two medics and […]
Recently, electricity was cut off at my dacha, along with electricity, the Internet was bent. It's nothing, it happens. Another thing is surprising: with the Internet turned off, e-mail fell on Yandex-mail. The sender address was strange: [email protected]. I had never heard of such a domain name before. The letter was no less strange. I was NOT told I had won a million pounds in the lottery, nor was I offered […]
In this article we will tell you how we solved the problem of a lack of free cells in a warehouse and the development of a discrete optimization algorithm to solve such a problem. Let's talk about how we “built” the mathematical model of the optimization problem, and about the difficulties we unexpectedly encountered when processing input data for the algorithm. If you are interested in applications of mathematics in business and […]
Image: Unsplash The modern stock market is a large-scale and rather complex field of knowledge. It can be difficult to immediately understand “how everything works here.” And despite the development of technologies, such as robo-advisors and test trading systems, the emergence of low-risk investment methods, such as structured products and model portfolios, to successfully work in the market it is worth gaining basic knowledge in this […]
The Apache Foundation presented a report for fiscal year 2019 (from April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019). The volume of assets for the reporting period amounted to $3.8 million, which is 1.1 million more than for the 2018 financial year. The amount of equity capital over the year increased by 645 thousand dollars and amounted to 2.87 million dollars. Most of the funds were received […]
In the release of Firefox 22 scheduled for October 70, it was decided to prohibit the display of requests for confirmation of credentials initiated from iframe blocks downloaded from another domain (cross-origin). The change will allow us to block some abuses and move to a model in which permissions are requested only from the primary domain for the document, which is shown in the address bar. Another noteworthy change in Firefox 70 will be […]
The Honor brand, owned by Huawei, introduced Vision TV - the company's first smart TVs. They have a 55-inch 4K screen with HDR support, and the display occupies 94% of the front edge thanks to very thin bezels. It is based on a 4-core Honghu 818 single-chip system, and the TVs are running the latest and ambitious HarmonyOS platform, with the help of which the company is going […]
